| 单词 | quackery |
| 例句 | His nutritional quackery even led him to monitor her regularity like a doctor, and some of their biggest fights came as a result of his interrogating Lina about her stools. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend. Perspective | Ask Amy: Wronged ex-wife struggles with memorial service 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But while endorsing relatively inert quackery is one thing, it is an order of magnitude worse when a celebrity uses their platform to push debunked nonsense. From vagina eggs to anti-vaxxers: is it time for an influencer detox? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Epstein contrasts “quackery” with “legitimate research,” and “craziness” with “serious science,” but the crucial question of how to distinguish between them is unaddressed. Science or Quackery? The Study of Hormones Has Been Both, a New Book Suggests 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z But he will not touch religion, the greatest source of evidence-denying quackery in the world. The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson – review 2012-05-25T10:00:01Z He was clearly the progenitor of alternative and New Age psychology, which has so often blended intriguing insights with outright quackery and half-baked religiosity. Knightley and Fassbender steam up "Dangerous Method" 2011-09-09T22:10:00Z Near the end of a period in which all sorts of quackery flourished, these assemblages speak not to reemergence but to the enduring appeal of intellectual retreat. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z She describes herself as “a documentary filmmaker concerned about quackery”. Robert De Niro steps into autism vaccination row by screening film 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z As Silver charts realms of quackery and freak shows, lycanthropy and psychoanalysis, indoor plumbing and urban waterworks, she eventually brings together the pieces of this story like glass in a kaleidoscope patterning and coalescing. Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Oz — a man whose own track record of quackery is not to be sneezed at — was appalled, calling Chachoua’s behavior “pretty inappropriate.” Bill Maher gets cozy with the “goat milk cures HIV” quack: If “truth is dead and the internet killed it,” Maher is part of the problem 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z In the realm of quackery, vague is better. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Far from quackery, these herbals were lifesavers, and the people who copied the words and illustrations shine through the murkiness of the Dark Ages as heroic figures to Touwaide and Appetiti. What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It was a successful campaign: even today, Atkins’s name brings with it the odour of quackery. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z People think that it's dangerous and that it's quackery. It takes a spine to benefit from chiropractic care 2013-04-16T23:14:09Z One is the mindset of free inquiry, the other of dogmatic quackery. Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z In the past few years, scientific rationalists – who spend their lives debunking quackery – have turned their attentions to the ancient Chinese therapy and found it wanting. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z “A lot of people that are used to conventional things and are resistant to change call it quackery. Call it whatever you wish, but I think that her intentions are really good.” Meet the Goopies 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z They form a kind of turn-of-the-century geek squad, employing criminal psychology — a field still separating itself from quackery — and such newfangled techniques as fingerprint collection, which the police eschew in favor of old-fashioned beatings. Review: ‘The Alienist’ Is a Period Piece That Missed Its Moment 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z “You should never equate, morally or practically, true science and pseudoscience or quackery,” says John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Mainstream legal scholars say the theory is quackery. "Far-right agenda": Fringe ideology of “constitutional sheriffs” is infecting Texas law enforcement 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z For years, diet drugs were viewed as vanity treatments or outright quackery, and many were pulled from the market because of dangerous side effects, including death. Weight-loss drugs are a milestone for the obese but expose health inequity 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z "Florida is collapsing into anti-vax quackery," tweeted Florida state Rep. Carlos Smith, a Democrat. “Anti-vax quackery”: Experts “stunned” after DeSantis demands grand jury probe into COVID vaccines 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Another Los Angeles plaintiff, Tracy Høeg, has acknowledged that this variety of quackery is out there. Column: The right wing gets its knives out for California's new medical misinformation law 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z MMT died a quicker death in the public square than its predecessors in quackery, or so it seemed. Opinion | Modern Monetary Theory, debunked everywhere except among government big-spenders 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet the quackery around the kernels remains, evidenced by the rampant testimonials for "a highly effective treatment for cancer" on Amazon for a similar product. Is there cyanide lurking in your summer peaches? 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z "Under the banner of holistic and integrative healthcare he thus promotes a 'quick fix' and outright quackery." An outspoken prince, King Charles may have to bite his tongue 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z He has also been criticised for forthright views on architecture, once calling a planned modernist extension to London's National Gallery a "carbuncle", and accused of "quackery" for his advocacy of alternative medicines. Charles, Britain's conflicted new monarch 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Only one thing remains static and continues to jeopardize the health of all who fall for it: quackery. Farewell, Readers, It’s Been a Remarkable Ride 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Among her favorite pieces are those derived from medical quackery, such as a mercury vapor lamp that could purportedly give you a tan, cure baldness and clear up diaper rash. How to display your personal collections in your home without creating clutter | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He has long been a spiritual dabbler, with a weakness for what some regard as quackery. Novak Djokovic, a Master on the Court, Keeps Making Errors Off It 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z But his practice is neither a superhuman capability nor New Age quackery. Forget hygge, it’s time for uitwaaien 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to compare his lifetime of fealty to science with these times when intellectual rigor has to battle with rumor, quackery and misdirection for the public’s attention. Perspective | The reassurance of their light 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z When I read up on Rife machines online, these were the stories I immediately encountered — the purest quackery, unfiltered snake oil. Opinion | How I Became Extremely Open-Minded 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z That this is even an issue reflects the craziness of pandemic quackery and the state of the medical profession. Discipline doctors who prescribe quack COVID-19 cures 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z He also weighed in on the rampant quackery of the time, such as a traveling showman's claim to have designed a chess-playing automaton. Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z “Reboot Camp” is a mockumentary about a fake self-help camp — complete with sham guru — that was intended to expose the quackery of such charlatans. New movies to stream this week: ‘Monster,’ ‘The Boy From Medellín’ and more 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Mr. Pizzo introduced a legislative amendment that he hoped would prevent schools and businesses from prohibiting people from getting vaccinated, calling such a policy “quackery.” How a Miami School Became a Beacon for Anti-Vaxxers 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z In 2011, a leading professor of complementary medicine accused the prince of “quackery”, saying that he and other backers of alternative therapies were “snake-oil salesmen” who promoted products with no scientific basis. Britain's Prince Charles takes swipe at anti-vaxxers 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Peruna, a widely popular medicine that later became synonymous with quackery, promoted itself by claiming that “nothing is any better” to help “ward off Spanish influenza.” A Century After Phony Flu Ads, Companies Hype Dubious Covid Cures 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Still, Poe wasn't immune to quackery himself, finding trendy pseudosciences like phrenology and animal magnetism perfectly sensible. Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z “It becomes clear to us now that they believed in herd immunity, quackery, springing right from the Oval Office. And not denied sufficiently by some of the CDC and the rest.” Pelosi: Some ‘faith-oriented’ Congress members say they ‘don’t believe in science’ 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Johnson, you may recall, used his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee last month to promote the long-discredited quackery that hydroxychloroquine cures the coronavirus. Opinion | We’ve finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election. It’s Ron Johnson. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had appointed a couple of old pals from bodybuilding days to this board, which was supposed to protect the public from quackery, ineptitude and thievery in the chiropractic ranks, the tipster wrote. Patients pay thousands for a back pain treatment promoted by exaggerated claims 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z With the pandemic, election season, trolls who weaponize confusion and the massive influence of social media platforms, conspiracy theories and quackery are spreading more quickly and widely than ever. Resist Misinformation, Watch Birds and Remember Plagues 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z This involved waving his hands over a patient’s “magnetic field” — a form of healthcare most contemporary scholars dismiss as quackery. Column: No, a chiropractor can't cure COVID-19 (or diabetes, for that matter) 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “People may still think this is quackery. It’s not,” Soon-Shiong said. Analysis | ‘I feel good. I’m alive’: Two years after diagnosis, Harry Reid says he’s cancer free 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z So is quackery: Rub raw onions on your chest, they said in 1918. Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science’s march 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z All pandemics trail a ready market in superstition, quackery and prejudice – a sense of powerlessness generates in some the need for catch-all theories, however deranged. 5G, coronavirus and contagious superstition 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Repression combines with folk beliefs in the medicinal power of animal carcasses, a deadly quackery that the world’s fastest growing middle class has the money to indulge. Surely the link between abusing animals and the world's health is now clear | Nick Cohen 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z She narrates “how the whole model minority quackery began”: After the United States lifted its 1965 immigration ban, it granted visas to Asians only if they were highly educated professionals. Review | Asian Americans’ uneasy place in the national narrative 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Parsing Goop’s sundry claims to pseudoscience and utter quackery feels like low hanging fruit. Psychedelics have lost their cool. Blame Gwyneth Paltrow | John Semley 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z I feel like we are living in a post-scientific age with quackery running rampant because people are so ignorant of science. What’s Wrong with Physics 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Still, it is easy to understand how public enthusiasm would spill over to those offering quackery. Wind-down of stem-cell institute leaves a void 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z This is the guy who killed a proposed ergonomics rule to protect workers against injuries from repetitive motions, denigrating the research as “junk science” and “quackery.” Trump pretends to like union members — but he really likes the fat cats 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The agreement announced Thursday represents the triumph of reality over Trumpian quackery. Column: In climate deal with automakers, California finds solution to Trump: Ignore him 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z “This event is endangering people’s lives, especially children. We must protect vulnerable people from this dangerous quackery,” she said. 'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Ditto for those who want to ground our conversations about autism in hard science rather than irresponsible or even dangerous quackery. Salon talks with a Department of Justice expert about autism 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “Anti-aging quackery goes back for centuries, and for centuries people have been harmed by falling for the latest antidote to aging,” she said. FDA's vampire warning highlights billionaires' obsession with not growing old 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Nowadays there’s the internet, replete with a virtual tsunami of information offered by all kinds of sources, from experts equipped with evidence-based facts to people selling products or outright quackery. When Cancer Meets the Internet 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Generations of oncologists and cancer biologists either heard nothing about Coley’s observations or lumped them together with cancer quackery. Review | A new book about cancer offers something rare: realistic hope 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z More recently, YouTube was accused of leading high school students who typed "federal reserve" into its search box as they researched a homework assignment down a rabbit hole of "conspiratorial quackery" with increasingly paranoid videos. California fire conspiracies a hit on YouTube 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Stephens called it “dry operose quackery ... mere chaff not studied from nature, and therefore worthless, never felt, and therefore useless”. Rebels of art and science: the empirical drive of the Pre-Raphaelites 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Others are potentially dangerous or border on pure quackery. FDA's vampire warning highlights billionaires' obsession with not growing old 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Heinlein and Asimov were repelled by what they saw as an uncritical embrace of quackery, and took refuge in newer, often more lucrative markets. Beyond pulp: trailblazers of science fiction’s golden age 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z But what I would really like to talk about is a subject that is perennially close to my heart and that is the utter quackery of the wellness industry. Gwyneth Paltrow's latest profile reveals the wellness industry's utter quackery 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It was, quite accidentally, a perfect soundtrack: Having tried all other means of defending Trump, his allies are now practicing quackery. Opinion | House conservatives demand an investigation — of Hillary Clinton 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Schwarcz directs McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, which debunks science myths, and he says the group is inundated with questions about medical scams and quackery, including many that promise to “detoxify” the body. Fact or Fiction: Can You Really Sweat Out Toxins? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, this was denounced as quackery of the most dangerous sort by health chiefs around the world. The president forced me to take his herbal HIV 'cure' 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z “The government is giving sanction to quackery,” he said. Indian doctors protest against plan to let ‘quacks’ practise medicine 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Once disparaged as borderline quackery, the total ankle replacement is gaining acceptance as a treatment for crippling arthritis and serious injuries. Ankle replacement was once disparaged as borderline quackery. No longer. 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, Liston couldn't help wondering whether the ether was just another product of quackery that would have little or no useful application in surgery. How Ether Transformed Surgery from a Race against the Clock 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The question, then, is why Americans bought into his quackery in the first place. Opinion | Trump takes his opponents’ evils to staggering new heights 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Many professionals derided his methods, and some considered them quackery; others failed to follow Lister's instructions and could not replicate his results. Health: The war on germs : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The next step was to generate a regular series of distractions with outrageous tweets and charlatan quackery from our Liar in Chief. What I Care About Is Important. What You Care About Is a ‘Distraction.’ 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Some health professionals worry that this opens the door to more quackery. Why China’s traditional medicine boom is dangerous 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z By this time we should all know also that not all alternative medicines are quackery. Kennedy’s Battle in the Nation’s War Against Cancer 2009-08-27T04:00:00Z But these church ladies and their pastors dish up a special kind of moral quackery. Trump’s pious and dangerous enablers 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Political scientists and pundits will dismiss any independent candidacy as quackery. Vive la France for its political-party shake-up 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In developed countries, leech applications are often, and perhaps unfairly, associated with quackery, like the once popular practice of bleeding patients. Leeches? Really? Doctor’s orders, in Russia’s limping economy 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z As for the Parkers of today, they would be online, researching their next twinge in the annals of digital quackery. Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished Novel 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Never mind that such quackery, while pretending to be rooted in economics, merely turns the “white working class” into just another branch of identity politics. Rust-belt romantics don’t get it: the middle class is being wiped out too | Aditya Chakrabortty 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, must be a duck- all quackery. Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Accepted Wisdom About Teeth 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The American Medical Association attempted to expose Brinkley’s quackery, and initially no one took them seriously. The Bizarre History of a Bogus Doctor Who Prescribed Goat Gonads 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Alas, a similar quackery increasingly infects politics across the Western world, and the side-effects are grave. Homeopathy politics 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Also in the FDA’s corner are a large number of scientists and doctors, who argue that clinical trials are the only standard that allows putative medicines to be distinguished from outright quackery. A dish called hope 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Medicine and questions of medicine must be left to the medical profession, and that community was unequivocal in calling out the Texas law for the quackery it was. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Chelation is the branch of quackery that most alarms him at the moment. The quack-up 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z On Sundays, 100,000 tourist flocked to the D.C. office to marvel at the one-of-a-kind creations - some born of frustration, others from quackery. Hagley owns world’s 2nd biggest patent model collection 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z What to ignore and what to privilege—that discernment can be the difference between brilliance and quackery, and between fame and obscurity. The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Experts quickly dismissed “affluenza” as a false diagnosis, a form of quackery, and indeed the condition is not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. America’s worst affluenza case: The U.S. military is blowing through our tax dollars 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z All of this could be dismissed as mere quackery were it not for the placebo effect, medically proven to treat many illnesses and shown to work even when the patient knows what’s happening. Better Than LSD? Trip Out On Joseph Cornell's Mind-Altering Art At This London Exhibit 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There was a time when Krugman dismissed rhetoric like Clinton’s as economic quackery. Can Everyone's Wage Be Above Average? Krugman And Clinton Are Wrong 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Epigenetics is a real and important part of biology, but due to predictable quackery, it is threatening to become the new quantum. Beware the pseudo gene genies 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z In a desperate attempt to turn back the clock she falls prey to Viper Wine, a quackery tonic which she must keep a secret from her alchemist husband, courtier and traveler, Sir Kenelm Digby. Book Talk: A painting inspires Eyre's 'Viper Wine' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Failing to recognize quackery: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” A Tech Column on Wearable Gadgets Draws Fire as ‘Pseudoscience’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Patients were treated with colonic purges and even bowel surgeries until these practices were dismissed as quackery. Mental Health May Depend on Creatures in the Gut 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet the dissenting parents cite unproven medical quackery in justifying their decision to reject vaccinations for children, a practice that endangers both their children as well as many others. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet, the dissenting parents cite unproven medical quackery in justifying their decision to reject vaccinations for children, a practice that endangers both their children as well as many others. Alabama editorial roundup 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Q: Are you drawing the conclusion that modern treatments against ageing are also quackery? Book Talk: A painting inspires Eyre's 'Viper Wine' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z To some leading psychiatrists, the notion of consumer apps like Samaritans Radar that would let untrained people parse the posts of individual friends and strangers for possible mental health disorders amounts to medical quackery. Risks in Using Social Media to Spot Signs of Mental Distress 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “Dear @DrOz: is quackery a miracle weight loss cure? Something tells me your walls are going to be a lot lighter w/o your license,” wrote @FluffieDucky. Dr. Oz Twitter campaign derailed: ‘How do I get my patients to stop believing your bull?’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Pitfall No. 3: Falling prey to quackery. Some food allergy testing is considered more reliable than others. Suspect a Food Allergy in Your Child? Avoid These 4 Pitfalls 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z As a consequence, Watsa has to dismiss a lot of quackery. The 90-year-old sex guru 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Let’s not waste precious time on vicious conjecture and quackery. In Defense Of Barack Obama (To A Point) 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The agents of such quackeries gain their converts by the simple process of reducing the inordinately complex to the absurdly simple. New Atheism’s big mistake: Debating creationists solves nothing 2014-02-01T15:30:00Z She appeals to God directly as her confidant and confessor about her weakness for “intellectual quackery,” her burning ambition to achieve literary greatness and other all-too-human foibles. Religion News Service: 2013’s most interesting books on religion 2013-12-27T22:27:40Z The October issue of Men’s Health sorts through them, offering warnings and tips in a field with a reputation for quackery. Apps help users track the flu 2013-10-28T19:24:09Z The idea of living forever left the realm of quackery and entered science fiction by the 1960s. Google Calico and a Brief History of the Immortality Business 2013-09-18T17:55:12Z The book also examines the lack of regulation in the industry and the impact of celebrity endorsements, charming practitioners, good marketing and public desperation on the proliferation of what Offit equates to quackery. Physician criticizes most alternative medicine and dietary supplements 2013-07-15T17:39:47Z He also blogs about pseudoscience and quackery at dcscience.net Testing Treatments: how to do fair tests of medical treatments. If a medical cure looks too good to be true, it probably is 2013-06-01T23:03:04Z He called chelation "a form of quackery" that some vulnerable patients look to when they're facing bypass surgery, for example. Chelation little help for heart disease: study 2013-03-26T20:03:27Z After signing SB1172, the governor called the therapies it would outlaw "quackery" that "have no basis in science or medicine." Court blocks California law banning gay therapy 2012-12-22T01:57:08Z Mr. O’Toole ignores the occasional charge of quackery. This Land: For 40 Years, Predicting Weather for Gruber’s Almanack 2012-12-10T02:17:06Z Rhino horn smugglers and purveyors, however, push empty promises and medical quackery. Rhino Poaching: An Extinction Crisis 2012-10-18T15:45:00.363Z If someone claims to be able to treat a medical condition like addiction with harmful quackery, he or she should be treated the same as any purveyor of bogus drugs. California's Conversion Therapy Ban: Only the First Step 2012-10-12T20:35:44Z In his statement, Gov Brown said sexual orientation change efforts "have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery". California law bans 'gay therapy' 2012-10-02T17:44:35Z In a statement, Mr Brown said sexual orientation change efforts "have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery". California law bans 'gay cure' 2012-10-01T14:34:03Z The therapies “have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery,” Brown said in a statement. California law bans gay teen ‘conversion’ therapy 2012-10-01T11:35:00Z “These practices have no basis in science or medicine, and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.” California Bans Therapies to ‘Cure’ Gay Minors 2012-10-01T01:16:04Z And it is difficult for the nonspecialist to separate scientific research from the usual flood of quackery and pseudoscience. How Science Can Improve Teaching 2012-08-22T11:15:00.177Z Much quackery has been recommended in the treatment of young turkeys. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z "I think a lot of these stem cell therapies seem like 21st century quackery." FDA may probe TX firm that held Perry's stem cells 2012-03-15T00:01:05Z That Christians are right to keep aloof from the general silliness and deceit of the Jews, their fussiness and quackery, I think you are well enough instructed. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Thus do we daily see impudence and quackery receiving rewards for supposed discoveries, and the keepers of the public purse on such occasions seem much less careful of it than of their own. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z This editor, a bright and capable man, wrote me a nice letter in reply, in which he agreed with me about quackery and incompetency in our profession. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z "You can't cure misery by quackery, my dear," he answered concisely. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z This opens a wide field to quackery, of which any woman with more cunning or self-assertion than her neighbours can avail herself for the sake of credit or of gain. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z But He is a perfect man, incapable of the slightest quackery, capable only of every honest and modest and helpful purpose, and these are perfections to which manifestly no one is born, but only re-born. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The subject of quackery, in every sphere of life, whether it be resorted to by diplomatists or physicians, sanctimonious adventurers or fashionable roués, leads to serious consideration. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But that quackery and graft are rampant among those who pose as healers has become so apparent that we believe every influence to expose and weed out the pretenders is timely. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z There were other organs which made a speciality of exposing quackery, but these could seldom resist the temptation of endeavouring—usually successfully—to blackmail the quack as an alternative to exposing him. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Of these not the least is the astounding growth of quackery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Let us exert that courage of thought, and that contempt of quackery, which to feel, and to display, is the privilege and the pride of a Briton. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z If there exists trickery and quackery in animal magnetism, its adversaries are too hasty in refusing to admit all that has been asserted in regard to its effects. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z No power but that of a public conscience awakened to the prevalence of quackery and grafting in connection with doctoring can clear away the accumulated filth. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z For the shady practices and quackery connected with its use in his own day he had nothing but scorn. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z This is the lowest sort of quackery; but there are also higher degrees. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z It borders on quackery to say that elementary physics will cure everything. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Credulity, and superstition her twin sister, have in all ages been the source whence priestcraft, and quackery have derived their wealth. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It was in reply to a correspondent who had “jumped onto” the editor of a popular magazine because in exposing graft and quackery he had necessarily implicated a certain brand of medical practitioners. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Herein lies the strength of charlatanism and quackery. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z He was an author without jealousy, a scholar without pedantry, and a politician without quackery. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z But that being said, giving addicts the drugs they want isn't always quackery. Conrad Murray Trial: Why Dr. Feelgood Isn't Always Wrong 2011-09-29T21:02:44Z A review of some of the chapters of that very interesting department of human history, the history of quackery, is extremely suggestive in that regard. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z Only two individuals, my brother and his wife, voiced overt objections to our plan; they questioned the authenticity of the treatment, not wanting to see us be taken by quackery and false claims. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z That bubble, which so many of us have all along regarded as the offspring of conceit, presumption, and political quackery, has burst. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z In 2009 Ernst accused Prince Charles of "outright quackery" for promoting the detox tincture and other such products "under the banner of holistic and integrative healthcare." Professor calls Prince Charles, others "snake-oil salesmen" 2011-07-25T17:28:41Z I have even heard people attribute that sort of quackery to satanic influence, which has almost struck me, if one may say so, as insulting to the intelligence of the devil. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z “There’s nothing in that sort of clairvoyance; it’s sheer quackery,” said Hilda, speaking in a decisive, authoritative tone that astonished her hearers. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z This is the lesson that the modern student of medicine must draw from the history of quackery. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It sounded too much like—oh, quackery; and I told Roger so. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z “He was a most uncompromising enemy to quackery in all its forms, and he always testified to the absurdity of what he considered the fashionable humbug of the age—homœopathy.” Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Charles Windsor constantly interferes in politics and promotes every variety of reactionary superstition and new-age quackery. The Problem with Princes 2011-04-29T17:20:00Z It’s a laughably bad study, but here’s a link for those with a high tolerance for quackery. Chinese Medicine Infiltrates Scientific Publishing 2011-03-27T23:20:49Z Indeed, it is during the past century or a little more that some of the most striking examples of quackery have occurred. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Whereupon the Baron called this preservative "Catholic quackery," and was annoyed that she made no reply to his attack. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z He is versed in all the forms of professional quackery. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z As to abstract and severe studies they were for girls, according to one of Luther's contemporaries, but "vain and futile quackeries." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Long before acupuncture or mind-over-body techniques were considered anything but quackery by American medicine, he was studying and promoting them. Khan Yunis Journal: In Gaza, Finding a Steadier Path Through Shaken Lives 2010-09-08T00:00:00Z Success of Quackery.—Always in the history of quackery and, indeed, in the history of all therapeutics, the appeal is to the cures that have been effected. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The time has come for us to call out circumcision for the quackery that it is; doctors and “researchers” need to be looking for ways to displace circumcision, not ways to see it continue. U.S. Circumcision Rates on the Decline 2010-08-17T14:18:00Z For some, it’s shorthand for New Age quackery. Scientist at Work: Tor D. Wager: Seeking to Illuminate the Mysterious Placebo Effect 2010-06-21T20:14:00Z Even though the book is only now hitting shelves, many Internet devotees will undoubtedly take its thesis as pure quackery. 'The Shallows': Is the Net Fostering Stupidity? 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z It is a conviction rooted so deeply in church dogma that dozens of members have gone to jail rather than surrender an ailing person to what they see as the quackery of medical science. Christian Science Church Seeks Truce With Doctors 2010-03-23T14:00:00Z If intelligent farriers are at hand, they may sometimes be called in with advantage; though we acknowledge our distrust of the quackery of most of those passing under this title. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. But the tone and surroundings of these shrines, and the sense of being encompassed by Divine as well as human sympathy, probably counteracted any ill effects of quackery. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius My friend's residence, moreover, was in a neighborhood contiguous to quacks and quackery, in the pretensions to which there were many believers. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician He himself had the gifts and the demerits of quackery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Yet, notwithstanding all this quackery, there is no doubt that they possess an infinite number of very valuable recipes, the result of long experience. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Why do you attain your good intentions by deception and evident quackery? Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle He attributes to Alexander not only the most daring deceit and calculating quackery, but also the foulest vices known to the ancient world. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Connected with this subject, viz., the treatment of consumption, there is probably much more of quackery than in any other department of disease which could possibly be mentioned. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician In the rare cases in which they are not pure quackery, they are always premature and based on inadequate data. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" This infernal Umlimo, whose quackeries and influence already had caused some stir in the land, had promised them copious rain on condition that the whites were slain. In the Whirl of the Rising On the back of the diploma, written in a round, clear hand, I found indorsed as follows: Fifteen years of my life have I lost by professing modern quackery. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. High science and skill have long since left our insulted and outraged ranks; we are mere commission agents for the sale of patent quackeries. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The mince pie dyspeptic is just the man for quackery to feed upon. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Then I received a notice to do no more quackery, on pain of great punishment. Black Forest Village Stories He would give them a little of the quackery of Benjamin Franklin, in the year 1790. Discussion on American Slavery The modern Athenians, with all their acuteness, are said to be rather susceptible subjects for quackery. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) There is no escaping from quackery and impertinence, even in our attempts to calculate the waste of time. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Numerous references to this piece of medical quackery occur in many of our old writers, most of whom condemn it in very strong terms. Folk-lore of Shakespeare In 1815 the Edinburgh Review contained an article on the system of “craniology” of F. J. Gall and K. Spurzheim, which was denounced as “a piece of thorough quackery from beginning to end.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" It had been said that abolitionism was "quackery," only four years old. Discussion on American Slavery We desire that it shall be rescued from ignorance and from quackery, and placed in the hands of active intellect and sound sense. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Lose no time with quackery in any shape or form. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects That all this should be systematized and proven with mathematical precision,—that there can be no guesswork or quackery,—is simply astounding. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 It was supposed that Mylne's mode of centreing was a secret, but in contempt of all quackery he deposited exact models of his system in the British Museum. Old and New London Volume I The quackeries of miracle-cure, shrine-cure, relic-cure, were destined to eclipse the genius of Hippocrates, and nearly two thousand years to intervene between Archimedes and Newton, nearly seventeen hundred between Hipparchus and Kepler. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Gentlemen, it is a disgraceful reproach to the profession of medicine; it is quackery, horrid unwaranted murderous quackery. Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense! It’s a kind of professional or literary quackery with them. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 If at first he indulged in rant, he has now subsided into an even vein; he puts things plumply, and tells his feelings gravely, and makes his points without quackery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 His science, his ingenuity, and his impudence once more practised on the credulity of the public, with the innocent quackery of attributing all medicinal virtues to British herbs. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Are the facts unrecognized, or is the silence only another form of political quackery? Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck England had never succumbed, but an indefatigable faction had played every art of quackery to set her faculties asleep, with the appearance of having her eyes more open than ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 He is a flickering taper under a bushel; and this, billah, were better than the pissasphaltum-souls which bushels of quackery and pretence can not hide. The Book of Khalid He would have had them "pyramid;" so does received quackery overpower the judgment of men of sense, and acute reasoning. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 He pretends these affected titles indicated their several subjects; but the genius of Toland could descend to literary quackery. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The masses were fighting to unseat kings, whose dogma of “Divine-right” had by the French Revolution been shown to be only insidious political quackery, in the past sustained largely by the sword. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Every science has its weak points, and is rather benefited than injured by the satire which, putting pedantry and quackery out of fashion, opens the way to an enlightened pursuit of knowledge. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History If they are imaginary, there is too much in this Book against quackery to daunt us. The Book of Khalid In no branch of the practice of physic is there more dangerous quackery, than in the dental department. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual The points in which it reflected honour on the authority from whence it emanated, were the moral tone, the liberal spirit, and the absence of all quackery, which were its leading features. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 But it was geese, you know, who once saved the Capitol; and I must have my hiss at the iniquitous quackeries which people seek to perpetrate under the taking title of University Reform. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Dr. F. related some terrific cases of malpractice by eminent physicians, and portrayed the horrible effects of the law in upholding quackery. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 But need we not be reminded of these wholesome truths, when the striving after originality nowadays is productive of so much quackery? The Book of Khalid He was a great admirer of Galen; and in his writings he protests emphatically against quackery and the superstitious remedies of the astrologers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" No man was ever more free from exaggeration or quackery in the display of his sentiments. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 By 1786, under the universal depression and want of confidence, all trade had well-nigh stopped, and political quackery, with its cheap and dirty remedies, had full control of the field. The Critical Period of American History The quackery of pardoners, with their pardons and indulgences from pope and bishop, is treated with contempt and scorn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Dr. Adam Smith:— “The chief cause of quackery outside the profession is the real quackery in the profession.” Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say A number of these recipes are barefaced quackeries; such as cures for consumption, cancer, rheumatism, and sundry other diseases; to make whiskers and mustaches grow—ah, boys, you can’t hurry up those things. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages We cannot, without raising a suspicion of having practised educational quackery, retreat from the position which we have thus taken up. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Another piece of legislative quackery is revealed in the action of Congress as stated in the following paragraph concerning “a new bureau.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 Enough, then, of this goose-cackle about Progress: Man, as he is, never will nor can add a cubit to his stature by any of its quackeries, political, scientific, educational, religious, or artistic. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion All this wicked quackery parades under the guise of ‘patent’ medicines, and asks the protection of our courts. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say I have come about to the end of my tether for this time; and quackery is something too monstrous in dimensions as well as character to be dealt with in a paragraph. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages From irregularity of habits and frequent exposure, they are often sick; and with the aid of a superstitious quackery, sink rapidly and in great numbers to the grave. Thoughts on Missions I despise quackery, and I wish physicians could be prevailed upon to take the matter in their own hands. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Placable and forgiving in his temper; modest, disinterested, unprejudiced; never evincing a foolish credulity; above deception, despising quackery; with an honesty of motive that was never suspected.’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Besides this, he imbibed all the follies and quackeries which others had rejected,—a circumstance in which visionaries entirely differ from philosophers. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom The fire was a very big one, and was burning up bigger things than such pedantic quackeries. Eugenics and Other Evils It was a time of conceits and quackery; but there was a better spirit abroad, of which this good man Host was the representative. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 You forget also, that in France the age of quackery is over. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Founded on fraud, maintained by deceit, perpetuated by falsehood—the sick are exploited to pay dividends on corporate quackery. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies As specified by himself it might not have the air of quackery, which, it cannot be denied, surrounds the receipt handed down to posterity. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography We have endeavored to speak plainly and to the point in dealing with quacks and quackery, because it is a topic of sovereign importance and urgency. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The meanest and most contemptible kind of cheating is quackery.—The quack is liar, thief, and murderer all in one. Practical Ethics Has mental healing a philosophical and scientific basis, or is it variously composed of quackery, superstition, and assumption? The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 If it were not so, quackery could not thrive. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery In medicine, quackery is the most frequently stigmatised. Olla Podrida In mechanics the parallelogram of forces is quackery, and is dangerous; for nothing is at rest, or in uniform, or in rectilinear motion, in the universe. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Phrenology deserves to be called a science, and one of the greatest and best of sciences, notwithstanding all the quackery and self-delusion that I find among the professors. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Trading upon the credulity of devout enthusiasts by fetishism and shrine quackery is not altogether confined to the ecclesiastics. The Philippine Islands It has been aptly said that no amount of instruction in physiology or materia medica at medical colleges will have any influence in the suppression of quackery. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery In this world we are so jealous of any discovery being made, that innovation is immediately stigmatised as quackery. Olla Podrida There is no quackery whatever in mathematics; no % equal to anything. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I To presume to do that would be a piece of charlatanry, social quackery of the worst type. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles "And yet America is, par excellence, the country of bluff, of quackery in patent medicines, and of the booming of unworthy persons," the doctor laughed. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime His action will expose quackery and unmask pretension. Rational Horse-Shoeing Either this is quackery, to use their own term, or twenty years ago they were very ignorant, for their patients received positive injunctions to avoid all fat and greasy substances. Olla Podrida Men were fools and liars, and impostors and quackery reigned supreme. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Did you not see our quack friend apply to himself his own quackery? The Confidence-Man By refusing to look for its truth and by concentrating attention upon its quackery the medical profession has lost fifteen years. Civics and Health No penal bill will suit all moral complaints, and the sooner we depart from quackery the better it will be for the prisoner and the nation as well. Six Years in the Prisons of England Are not those inside the church setting him the example of mixing up religion with quackery? Olla Podrida Our current hypotheses about Mahomet, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Although speaking in the interest of a faith generally unpopular, and involved in no slight degree in crudities, extravagance, and quackery, she was herself neither fool nor fanatic. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Patent medicines and other forms of quackery could not pay such enormous dividends unless there was some truth in their claims; unless their victim found some beneficial return for his money. Civics and Health One would have imagined that a gigantic quackery and multitudes of quack doctors could have been procured and set in motion with less trouble and at less expense! Six Years in the Prisons of England "You must be thinking of Mr. Regulus," said I, laughing, as memory brought before me some of his inimitable quackeries. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author It was felt that something had to be done to stop the evil that had arisen and the charlatanry and quackery which was being practised. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages Economic determinism has been an antidote to mere preaching of goodness, to hero-worship and political quackery. A Preface to Politics There were means of learning fifteen years ago what was truth and what was quackery about the practice of osteopathy. Civics and Health "An immense power for quackery, my dear Miss Olive!" The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Quacks and Quackery Quacks and quackery should be vigorously fought by laymen as well as physicians. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Practically, of course, this is simply an invitation to quackery. A Book of Prefaces They do not consider that the truth thus brought to light, while they fail to acknowledge it, is affording ‘to selfish quackery’ a capital to trade on.” Theory of Circulation by Respiration Synopsis of its Principles and History Medical science has so long enveloped itself in mystery that it is in danger now of becoming discredited and of falling heir to the mantle of quackery. Civics and Health After reading your letter she said, “Mr. Williams’s intention was kind and good, but he was under a delusion: Homœopathy was only another form of quackery.” Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The wonderful prospects held out before him, and his disillusionment, afford scope for much sarcastic wit at the expense of quackery. The Growth of English Drama Lloyd George has never heard of Ramsey—and so on, and the hash and muddle and quackery on our technical side is appalling. Gilbert Keith Chesterton More than once she has paid dearly for her quackery, for the county authorities apprehended her for poisoning, and clapped her into jail for some years. The Poor Plutocrats SPECTATOR.—'From the layman's point of view this must be accounted one of the most sensible and practical books dealing with medicine, disease, and quackery that have ever been published.' Historical Mysteries But brain and skull do not always correspond with sufficient closeness; and besides, Sir William Hamilton has shown conclusively, I believe, that phrenology is quackery; its principles are not scientific and its observations not reliable. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Against all such social quackery the obvious injunction to the quacks is, to mind their own business. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other At the same time he says he has only spoken against impostors, and is only the enemy of false pretence, quackery, lies, and puffing. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour While in every other profession quackery and pretension may gain for men wealth and honor, forensic renown can be won only by rare natural powers aided by profound learning and varied experience in trying causes. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 In fact, it appears safe to state that light-therapy often smacks of quackery. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization There was audacious quackery in a stage rescript from Moscow. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Indeed, it was said by his friends that his death was accelerated by his devotion to medical quackery, from a belief in which no arguments could wean him. Great Violinists And Pianists Our regular physicians in Scotland have little quackery, and no quack accordingly has ever made his fortune among us. Life of Adam Smith Huge sums of money rolling in from the pockets of credulous people, money stinking with the curse of vulgarity and quackery! The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton The attempt to naturalize them in France, or any Continental nation, he regards as mischievous quackery. Auguste Comte and Positivism "And these quackeries do not," Grandmama finished her sentence to herself, not wishing to be discouraging. Dangerous Ages The revolution of '89 just occurred in time to relieve the abortive author, physiologist, and physicist from the intolerable position into which he had been thrown by his inability and his quackery. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Bad work and high price have been the effect of the monopoly introduced by the former; quackery, imposture, and exorbitant fees have been the consequences of that established by the latter. Life of Adam Smith So far as can be gathered from the clay tablets, faith cures were not unknown, and there was a good deal of quackery. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Even doctors will agree that infidelity, ignorance, and quackery have never met the growing wants of humanity. No and Yes On the afternoon before the carefully planned meeting, ten days after Norman Hale was taken to the hospital, the diplomat of quackery, his shoulders eased of all responsibility, sat lunching early at the Hotel Dunston. The Clarion These sounding words in Italian are even better adapted to the purposes of quackery than the corresponding French. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. The great success of quacks in England has been altogether owing to the real quackery of the regular physicians. Life of Adam Smith Vaccination came under his searching criticism, and in the face of nearly the whole medical faculty he denounced it as quackery condemned by the very evidence used to defend it. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 Du Maurier became its satirist; Bunthorn and Postlethwaite presented it to the philistine understanding in a grotesque mixture of caricature and quackery. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Dr. Surtaine employed the stock answer of medical quackery when challenged on incontrovertible facts. The Clarion Napoleon had given him some lessons in politics, and lessons in war, abandoning himself in the first to the quackery of vice, and in the second to the pleasure of exhibiting a disdainful carelessness. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. With such notions abroad, quackery must have been rife, and serious medical practitioners had many difficulties to contend with. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London And they prefer quackery ... look at the decent doctors they simply turn into charlatans. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts "Cush quackery go, But, besides you must know, I'd heard of a profiting Prophet below; Big botherum blether, Who pretended to gather The tricks that the Moon meant to play with the weather." The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood This astounding variation of opinion in the doctors of the State savours of empiricism, not to say quackery. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 I will not say, justly punished; for affection for their children, in which respect they were never surpassed by any parents on earth, was the cause of their listening to the danger-obviating quackery. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Nevertheless, the alternative must be faced, that a 'modernised' Catholicism must either descend to deliberate quackery, or proclaim that the bank from which the main part of her revenues is derived has stopped payment. Outspoken Essays It proved to be a better 'medicine' for me than all the quackeries of the quacks. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems This piece of quackery would ruin his name with Lockwin, were it known to him, or had Dr. Tarpion been consulted. David Lockwin—The People's Idol Let one argue in the same way about medicine, and say that this is a pure system of quackery, devised by physicians, in order to get a support out of the people for doing nothing. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Was the quackery exploded, and were the granters of the twenty thousand pounds ashamed of what they had done? Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. But "make your game" while yet there's room, For novel shapes of quackery. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 He had heard the Cure which he regarded as a divine unction termed a pestilential quackery; the words burned red-hot in his brain. Septimus I tell you, Durtal, it's superficial quackery, and that isn't all. Là-bas He seems to have been justly rewarded for his quackery, for he lost both his wife and his son by sickness. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II But these were paltry excuses; the mere shuffles of quackery; for what do we know now? Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Our current hypothesis about Mohammed, that he was a scheming impostor, a falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be no longer tenable to any one. An English Grammar She did not call the Cure pestilential quackery. Septimus And a country which they had reduced to the somnambulistic state by the constant reiteration of this phrase unfortunately submitted to their quackery, and have had grave reason to regret it ever since. Ireland Since Parnell Joseph would have liked one himself, but had no money, and was further restrained by a sense of conviction that his father would say it was all nonsense and quackery. The Sign of the Red Cross What answer I gave, what names and epithets I bestowed upon Jenner and his quackery, I will leave the reader to imagine. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. They prescribe some quackery, and you have to drink it. The Schoolmaster In the silence that followed she realized with sudden amazement that she had opened her heart to this prime apostle of quackery. Septimus Antonyms: maladroitness, empiricism, quackery, inexpertness, clumsiness. skillful, a. skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished. Putnam's Word Book Into this atmosphere of quackery and delusion the report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges breathes a refreshing blast of sound common sense. War-Time Financial Problems This nation is fond of quackery of all sorts; and this particular quackery having been sanctioned by King, Lords and Commons, it spread over the country like a pestilence borne by the winds. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Mr. Thompson had no sooner ended his remarks when a score of Saints and Sinners sprang up to protest against this ribald quackery. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 Our current hypothesis about Mohammed, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. Sacred Books of the East To pushing quackery a high example, A calm rebuke to egotist parade! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 No, sir; in London we see into, and see through, all sorts of pretension: the pretension of wealth or rank, whatever kind of quackery and imposture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 As it is easy to demonstrate the quackery of paid ‘mediums,’ as that, at all events, is a vera causa, the theory of Survival and Revival seems adequate. Cock Lane and Common-Sense We are ruining perfect health by nostrums and quackery. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style This fosters infidelity, and is mental quackery, that denies the Principle of Mind-healing. Rudimental Divine Science On leaving, with prophetic vision, he said, "I prophesy a short life for this paper; the business world is based on quackery, and you cannot live without it." Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 As Paul Leicester Ford remarks, some of the remedies tried savored of quackery. George Washington: Farmer And, of the quackery which is now so prevalent, what can be a more natural effect, than a very general contempt for the study of grammar? The Grammar of English Grammars The very skin of the Rebellion chafed and burned more fiercely with all this quackery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 There is either a good deal of bigoted intolerance with a deplorable want of self-knowledge in all this; or at least an equal degree of cant and quackery. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits It is a species of journalistic quackery which every thorough-bred publisher regards with contemptuous pity. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 It cannot be concealed," says M. Renouard, "it cannot be prevented; patents are and will be instruments of quackery as well as a legitimate reward of labor and genius. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Have plagiarism and quackery become the only means of success in philology? The Grammar of English Grammars The Doctor was extensively accused of quackery, and on one occasion when the Herald touched on the same subject, it brought him to our office and he exhibited diplomas, certificates and medical honors without number. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé It may smell of quackery, but it is exceedingly useful to the patient. The Stark Munro Letters Unfortunately there is more brazen quackery in our sectarian colleges than was every dreamed of by Cagliostro. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 "It is all part and parcel of the same system of quackery and nonsense, for which I regret to say that the writer is notorious." The Lost World Under no circumstances, however, can the artifices of quackery be thought excusable in him who claims to be the very greatest of modern grammarians. The Grammar of English Grammars But do tell me, has our excellent Spitta once more made some public application of his quackery for the healing of the so-called sins of the social order? The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Inquiry will probably show that he has a record for quackery and has probably sailed fairly close to the wind at times. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles She will remain in close attendance upon the sick-room; and I must beg that there is no quackery—no home-made remedies. Charlotte's Inheritance Much quackery teems, of course, even on democracy's side, yet does not really affect the orbic quality of the matter. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Thou treacherous medicine, reckoned pure, Thou quackery of the harassed heart, That kills what it pretends to cure, Life's mountebank thou art. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript You practise a bit of quackery now and then as a diversion, don't you? The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Science simulating genius is but a form of quackery. Amiel's Journal Very hard tooth-brushes are not advisable, and a simple tooth-powder of common chalk is safer and more effectual than any quackeries. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. He had been persecuted—in 1859 he had been imprisoned for eleven months, on a charge of quackery—because all great men were persecuted; remember our Lord Jesus Christ! Recollections of My Childhood and Youth That was his quackery, don't you see, to set the audience guessing When Niobe would speak; meanwhile, the drama was progressing. The Frogs Lindsay would lose much more by adopting the methods of quackery than he could ever make: he would lose hospital connections, standing in the professional journals, and social prestige. The Web of Life For the rest, there was the inevitable admixture of quackery about our reforming sage; his warmest admirers cannot but admit that he savours somewhat strongly of the holy impostor. Old Calabria There was unquestionably an odor of quackery about him; but by no means of an ordinary kind. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Yet this man, thus enlightened and philanthropical, established his system of proceeding upon narrow and exclusive principles, and conducted it by methods of artifice, quackery and delusion. Lives of the Necromancers For other sorrows, life has salves and consolations, but a noble and enduring passion is not all of this world, and to cure its sting we must look to something beyond this world's quackeries. Dawn There is thus a fine opening for pedantry on the one side, and quackery on the other, to rush in. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship A similar story of quackery is found in Chaucer, "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale." English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World From time immemorial the commonest form which quackery has assumed has been associated with astrology and prophecy. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments The comic poets ridiculed pretension, arrogance, quackery, and lies. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations With all the pertinacity of ignorance, they maintained their certainty of his abnormal condition; and with all the officiousness of quackery, they insisted upon immediate amputation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 My chief inducement to notice the above disorder arises out of the well-known fact, that there is no complaint of childhood more frequently subjected to quackery and mismanagement than is this. The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease He had all the roués of Paris running to him, and consequent charges of quackery and charlatanism. The Glands Regulating Personality It is not of much value, but it is irresistible, and therefore quackery is immortal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 We shall conclude our astrological strictures with the following advertisement, which affords as fine a satirical specimen of quackery as is to be met with. Thaumaturgia There is no chance for quackery in his work. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 Was this stupendous quackery to bring ruin to the Tidewater? Salute to Adventurers His "Rimini" "is so wretchedly written that one feels disgust at its pretense, affectation and gaudiness, ignorance, vulgarity, irreverence, quackery, glittering and rancid obscenities." There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Analysis of advertising in all its forms had inspired Average Jones with a profound contempt and dislike for the cruelest of all forms of swindling medical quackery. Average Jones Do tell me all about it; I am curious to see the quackery that shelters beneath so long a beard. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It is well known that we are far behind England, Germany and France in the protection of our people from incompetent physicians and quackery. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 This manipulation of the plague by Moses, upon what seems to have been a sudden inspiration, was a stroke of genius in the way of quackery. The Emancipation of Massachusetts "Mine," says DIVINITY, "pursue a system of gimcrackery, Called Puseyism, a pack of stuff, and quite as arrant quackery." The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe In all this there is a lot of quackery, but a lot of what is really good and useful—for instance, the porridge. Letters of Anton Chekhov All sorts of cures will be tried, many of them mere quackery, and their failure will make matters worse. More Pages from a Journal He is a paragon of deceit and quackery, a jingling knave. Without Prejudice In the long run, all this quackery does no good. The Recreations of a Country Parson Look at the papers! full of scandalous advertisements of patent medicines! a huge commercial system of quackery and poison. The Doctor's Dilemma Entering upon one of these temple treatments is, in short anything but surrendering oneself to unmitigated quackery. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Note that vanity here tends to merge into SOLEMNITY, in proportion to the degree of quackery there is in the profession under consideration. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Extension of the AMA's control through regulatory law and police power is justified in the name of preventing quackery and making sure the ignorant and gullible public receives only scientifically proven effective medical care. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor And in vain it is To think of waiting longer; pitiful To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm, not good. The Dynasts Mary showed her white teeth in a silent laugh at the improbability, there being nothing Ethel more detested than what she rather rudely called nervous quackeries. The Trial In any case he was evidently a man who despised all quackery from the bottom of his heart. Jezebel's Daughter When one thinks of the gambling, quackery, and other vocations far less respectable upon which vast fortunes are spent he thinks how dreadful the results of all of this spending. See America First Chicanery impossible 456:3 Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but con- trary to its spirit or rules, is most dangerous quackery. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures They look askance at all such things and regard them as dangerous experiments, and assert that their dignity will not permit them to recognize any irregular practice, or any form of quackery. The Royal Road to Health Of late years it has appeared in England but with the same quackery and imposture which have ruined "Spiritualism" as the Faith of the Future. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 As for us, who hunger after lucidity, let us relinquish abstruse theories to whoever delights in them and confine our ambition to observable facts, without pretending to explain the quackery of the plasma. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography But, with all this, they disowned their forerunner, and still called him a quack while adopting his quackery. Hard Cash Mental charlatanism 458:1 Mental quackery rests on the same platform as all other quackery. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Life itself is a piece of harmless quackery. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Such was the outcome of the effort made by reputable lawyers and public spirited laymen to eliminate quackery from the practice of the criminal law. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 What more loathsome than the swaggering quackery of some present holders of the hammer? The Fitz-Boodle Papers If, in a country where so many quacks have had their day, Prince Louis Napoleon thought he might renew the imperial quackery, why should he not? The Paris Sketch Book Mental quackery 395:21 It is mental quackery to make disease a reality - to hold it as something seen and felt - and then to attempt its cure through Mind. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Neither is it professional pedantry or trading quackery: it has no excuse. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners The vulgar quackeries drop off, atrophied, one after another. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 But soon Miss Monro reappeared, bringing with her a dose of soothing medicine of her own concocting, for she was great in domestic quackery. A Dark Night's Work The tragedy that well-nigh resulted taught him that human lives are dangerous playthings, and that quackery in attempting spiritual reform involved more peril than ignorant interference with physical laws. A Face Illumined Having seen so much suffering from quackery, the author desires to keep it out of Christian Science. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures There is no quackery in medicine, religion, or politics, which may not impose even on a powerful mind, when that mind has been disordered by pain or fear. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Hence it is in literature, that quackery is most easily puffed, and excellence most easily decried. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 This patient, it is recorded, was doing well and seemed to be in a fair way of ultimate recovery, but fell a victim to the quackeries of medical experiment. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 I am already a little stronger…Dr. Gully feels pretty sure he can do me good, which most certainly the regular doctors could not…I feel certain that the water-cure is no quackery. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 The temples and the marts of men echo all night and day to the clamour of lies and shams and quackeries. Diary of a Pilgrimage In part he was a quack, but his quackery always had a meaning in it. Montezuma's Daughter Women are not taken in by quackery as readily as men are; the hardness of their shell of logic makes it difficult to penetrate to their emotions. In Defense of Women VII Let us here turn and consider whether by deterring his associates from quackery and false seeming he did not directly stimulate them to the pursuit of virtue. The Memorabilia Medicine, guarded too by preliminary impediments, and frightful medusa-heads of quackery, which deter many generous souls from entering, is of the half-articulate professions, and does not much invite the ardent kinds of ambition. Latter-Day Pamphlets Our current hypothesis about Mahomet, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History |
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